Short articles on our changing world
What is “Gain of Function’ research?
‘Gain of Function’ (GOF) research uses benign-sounding terminology to confuse people who are unfamiliar with the subject. It used to be called ‘biodefense,’ ‘biological warfare’ and ‘germ warfare’ research…
What is computer modeling?
Physics can predict the behavior of simple systems very accurately. For a ball tossed in the air, you can solve an equation that reliably tells the trajectory.
But most things that…
How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Your Life
Understanding the promise and perils of AI technology Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long captured the human imagination. We’ve all watched movies where humans interact with machine intelligence that mimics or…
The Myth of Pandemic Preparedness
Under the guise of pandemic preparedness an industry was built out, fortunes were made, and new lethal viruses and other microorganisms were discovered or created. A panoply of pandemics and…
Powerful Philanthropy
With the founding of the United Nations in the immediate aftermath of WWII a powerful global framework emerged out of the rubble. While the United Nations is generally associated with…
What is ESG?
ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance and is a set of standards put forth by the WEF to challenge corporations to rate themselves on their social responsibility, and to…
What’s Wrong with Health Equity?
The call for health equity has become a rallying cry for public health – health for all and the ability for all people to reach their full health potential. In…
What Happened to Medical Ethics During the Pandemic?
We have a global crisis of medical ethics. In the last 3 years, under the excuse of the pandemic “emergency”, we have seen the destruction of the sacred doctor-patient relationship…
Climate Change
How do we know whether it is, on average, getting warmer or colder? We have been told the earth is dramatically heating up. On average, the world has heated…
Are Elections Honest?
Probably most would agree that the two-party system keeps important topics like peace and single-payer healthcare out of the public discourse and ensures that candidates outside the mainstream will never…
Misinformation and Censorship
One cannot watch much media these days without seeing a pundit from an elite journalistic or academic institution claim that this or that is “misinformation” or “disinformation.” Claims of misinformation…
The Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum or WEF was founded by Klaus Schwab in Geneva, Switzerland in 1971. It has developed into a futurist mix of private club and think tank where…
What is the World Economic Forum?
Did you know that the most powerful and influential people in government and private industries from around the world have been meeting regularly for over 50 years? The World Economic…
The WHO, UN and other international organizations have become sex educators
Global organizations have embraced sex education as a ‘health issue,’ and many now advocate for sex education beginning at age 5.[1] It is asserted that children have universal rights…
What is Central Bank Digital Currency?
What is money, who makes it, and what is the role of the State and the banking system? These are big questions. Money can be a medium of exchange, a…
The Control of Food
Our grandparents and great grandparents produced much of their own food in their gardens or on their farms. Food choices in stores were limited, with little frozen food available…
The Sustainable Development Goals
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the basis of Agenda 2030, a collection of seventeen interlinked objectives, adopted as a resolution by the General Assembly of the United Nations…
Human Rights
The 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights has been signed and ratified by 173 countries, including the US. It recognizes that the “inherent dignity and the equal and…
What is One Health and Why is it a Problem?
“One Health” was conceived 20 years ago as the idea that human health and animal health are intertwined, since some diseases are transmitted from animals to humans. These diseases…
What is the W.H.O.?
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is an agency formed under the auspices of the United Nations (U.N.) in 1948, shortly after the U.N. itself was formed following World War 2…
Vaccine Passports and Digital IDs
Vaccine passports are a tool certifying a person’s vaccination history. Based on vaccination status, a person may be prevented from traveling or accessing services. Vaccine passports could be incorporated…
Social Credit Score: Fiction or Reality?
The concept of a social credit system is based on a government-run credit rating system that assigns score and trustworthiness to its citizens and businesses, which could be blacklisted or…